épuration
\e.py.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“épuration” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,548
- frequency rank, French
- 1,805
- “É” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’épurer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-epuration · épuration · French
épuration · rank #15,548 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,548
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,805
- PHOTO-FINISH énergique
Nearest frequency peer: énergique (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « épuration »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- élargi
élargi
84,456 corpus weight
- éloignées
éloignées
84,455 corpus weight
- énergique
énergique
84,454 corpus weight
- épuration
épuration
84,453 corpus weight
- équilibrée
équilibrée
84,452 corpus weight
- étendues
étendues
84,451 corpus weight
What this shows « épuration » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épuration |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.py.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « épuration »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around épuration (IPA \e.py.ʁa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,548 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action d’épurer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for épuration, with forms such as "epuration", "péuration", and "éppuration". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "expiration", "education", "émulation", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is épuration, spelled É-P-U-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’épurer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how épuration appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la station d’épuration, on décante et on purifie selon des procédés que le simple mortel ignore.
Staline s'était signalé par des proscriptions impitoyables: découvertes de complots, exécutions d'agents de l'ennemi, épurations à coup de révolver.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epuration
- péuration
- éppuration
- épruation
- épuartion
- épuraiton
- épuratino
- épurationn
- épuratoin
- épurattion
- épurration
- épurtaion
- éupration
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of épuration - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "épuration", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).